I was interviewed by Italian journalist Laura Cappon, on Sisi’s regime online propaganda drive using social media influencers.
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Counterrevolutionary propaganda
Prison propaganda video
The Interior Ministry issued a new propaganda video, about how wonderful health care is inside prisons, that one wishes hospitals outside were as good, according to the video. This is not my sarcasm. This was literally said. The video is what one would normally expect, of shiny clinics in prisons, clean facilities, and praise showered
Read on »Pro-military propaganda BS
Sorry patriots. He’s Armenian not Egyptian.
Read on »Big Brother Headlines
Whether it’s owned by the state, or “independent” businessmen, Egypt’s front page headlines are all coined identically by the army’s Department of Morale Affairs.
Read on »‘War on infidels’
It was a pile of trash already, but it’s even getting worse since Yasser Rizk became the CEO of Al-Akbar, Egypt’s second largest state-owned newspaper. Just to give you a sample, above is Al-Akhbar’s front page on 28 March, breaking the news about the Egyptian army’s heroic efforts to “abort a terror strike” on a
Read on »ملخص بيانات السيسي
يا مصريين يا مصريين يا مصريين يا مصريين يا مصريين يا مصريين يا مصريين يا مصريين تحيا مصر تحيا مصر تحيا مصروالسلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته — ؤ ئ ؤ (@OffTheHookPain) March 26, 2015
Read on »Sisi’s Dirty War: Propaganda, lies and no accountability
Lest we forget, the regime’s mouthpiece the daily Al-Ahram newspaper’s front page headline announced “Egypt to be declared terrorism-free in days,” on 23 September 2013, and estimated “may be a week”. But the insurgency in Sinai, which is already a decade long at least, starting with the 2004 Taba bombings, has only escalated during Sisi’s
Read on »The Egyptian army’s lousy 1960s-style propaganda
In response to Ansar Beit al-Maqdis’ latest propaganda video, the Egyptian Army’s Department of Morale Affairs issued its own propaganda video. And of course the mainstream “singers” have to chip in and aid the war on terror efforts, by even more lousy songs.
Read on »Sisi’s Spin Man
Ahmad Muhammad Ali plagiarized his MA thesis.
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